ok...Opinion/Quiz time

saintguru

What do you think is the single best date/mint for US coins measured by rarity?? ie. 2005-S

RYK

1861-D

saintguru

my oversight...20th century!!

nwcs

1907 Super duper ultra high relief Saint probably. But other than that, the Pan Pac $50 would be my bet.

saintguru

I'm talking about across the board tough date in every issue....think!

sliderider

Looking at mintages, 1931-S seems to stand out. Only cents, nickels and dimes that year and much lower production than the years around it.

RYK

1916

anablep

I agree, 1916, except for cent.

Cam40

wag: 1921

saintguru

OK...I say 1920-S! Give it a look and see if you agree?

Cratylus

It's gotta be 1913-S. The only coins with this date/mint mark and their mintages are:

1 cent: 6.1 million
5 cent: 3.3 million
10 cent: 510,000
25 cent: 40,000
50 cent: 604,000
half eagle: 408,000
eagle: 66,000
double eagle: 34,000

Conder101

I like 1931-S loks like about 3.8 million coins total for the year.

roadrunner

heck with the 20th century. And this includes varieties so only dates and mint mark. I like the 1901-s myself. Any Philly coin has to many other common ones around it. And most any date that includes a cent has probably thousands of specimens left surviving.
I doubt there are thousands of 1901-s coins out there...on 2nd thought, the gold coins are pretty common. Forget this date. How about 1913-s? See...20th century dates are too common. Too many of the cents have been saved, same for most gold coins in circ or low BU grades. The 1916 has too many common denoms (1c, 5c, 10c, barber 25c, half)...even the 16d is plentiful. Even the 1922 has the common peace dollar. This is tougher than it looks. Maybe it's the 1931-s even those of ton of pennies are out there.

early 19th century: 1804 gold, silver and copper.
2nd half of 19th century: 1870-cc gold and silver

roadrunner

mgoodm3

14D is always a nice date.

Conder101

<< <i>early 19th century: 1804 gold, silver and copper. >>


Nah, they made a gob of half cents that year, try 1815, total mintage for the year for everything was around 100,000 coins. Most of them 89,000 were quarters.

saintguru

So nobody thinks the 1920-S rates up there?? Look at prices over mintage...mintage doesn't mean squat...they made 558K Saints yet there are only less than 100 graded...I also think the 19-D is a great date, but no gold was minted.